From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/9] introduce rocker switch driver with hardware accelerated datapath api
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:37:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541D129F.8040706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140919142032.GF1980@nanopsycho.orion>
On 09/19/14 07:20, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:15:32PM CEST, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM wrote:
>> From: Jiri Pirko
>>> This patchset can be divided into 3 main sections:
>>> - introduce switchdev api for implementing switch drivers
>>> - introduce switchdev generic netlink api for userspace manipulation
>>> - introduce rocker switch driver which implements switchdev api
>>
>> Perhaps you should be including the name of what you are switching
>> in the name of the API?
>>
>> Is this for interfacing to ethernet switches, TDM switches or
>> mechanical ones?
>> It isn't really clear from any of these commit messages.
>
> I thought that is isn't necessary, that it is clear this is about ethernet
> switches.
>
How about putting some of this code in net/ethernet/* to make very very
obvious this is what this thing is about?
--
Florian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-20 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 13:49 [patch net-next v2 0/9] introduce rocker switch driver with hardware accelerated datapath api Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 1/9] net: rename netdev_phys_port_id to more generic name Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <1411134590-4586-2-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-19 13:54 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 3/9] rtnl: expose physical switch id for particular device Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 4/9] net-sysfs: " Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 5/9] net: introduce dummy switch Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <1411134590-4586-6-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-20 5:21 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 7:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 6/9] switchdev: add basic support for flow matching and actions Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 5:32 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 7:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 7/9] switchdev: add swdev features Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 15:25 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-19 15:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 17:57 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-19 22:12 ` John Fastabend
2014-09-19 22:18 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 5:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 8:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 8:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 10:19 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 11:01 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-20 11:32 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 11:51 ` Thomas Graf
[not found] ` <20140920115140.GA3777-FZi0V3Vbi30CUdFEqe4BF2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-20 12:35 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-22 7:53 ` Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <20140922075337.GA1828-6KJVSR23iU488b5SBfVpbw@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-22 11:48 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 5:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 8:14 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 10:53 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-20 22:50 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-22 8:13 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-22 15:10 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-22 22:17 ` Thomas Graf
[not found] ` <20140922221727.GA4708-FZi0V3Vbi30CUdFEqe4BF2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-22 22:40 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-22 22:53 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-22 23:07 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-23 1:36 ` John Fastabend
2014-09-23 7:19 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 11:09 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <CA+mtBx9ZVQ5r5Hzy9-uEnk+iu+HKkOP4+VANC06Xf8VvTxktwQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-23 9:18 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 1:54 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-23 2:16 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-23 4:11 ` Andy Gospodarek
2014-09-23 10:11 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 15:32 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-09-24 13:32 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-26 20:03 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-09-26 21:02 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 9:52 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-20 3:41 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-20 8:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 12:39 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-20 8:10 ` Scott Feldman
2014-09-20 10:31 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <DDC24110-C3F5-470F-B9BE-1D1792415D1E-qUQiAmfTcIp+XZJcv9eMoEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-20 12:51 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-20 17:21 ` Scott Feldman
2014-09-20 17:38 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-21 1:30 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 9/9] rocker: introduce rocker switch driver Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <1411134590-4586-1-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 2/9] net: introduce generic switch devices support Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 14:15 ` [patch net-next v2 0/9] introduce rocker switch driver with hardware accelerated datapath api David Laight
[not found] ` <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D17495CC6-VkEWCZq2GCInGFn1LkZF6NBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-19 14:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 5:37 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
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